We’re always complaining and moaning about how Web design / development education in Universities Worldwide is poor, out-dated, and generally not worth the time and money. The W3C have set-up Community Groups and Business Groups so that developers, designers, and anyone passionate about the Web has a place to have discussions and publish documents. A W3C Community Group is an open forum, without fees, where Web developers and other stakeholders develop specifications, hold discussions, develop test suites, and connect with W3C’s international community of Web experts.

The Community Group I’m talking about is the W3C Web Education Community Group which aims to evolve the Web and improve the overall skill set of the web industry by improving the quality of available web education resources and courses around the world.

The group is currently running 5 main projects which consist of: Curriculum, International Education Projects, Learning Material, Outreach, and Training and Certification. I’m involved in the group and so is Alexander Dawson. If there is anyone here (and I know there is…) who is working in the industry as a Web professional, working as an educator involving a Web design / development related course, or are a student at University level studying a Web design / development based course then I recommend you get involved and contribute to this group.

The sign-up process for the group is free for everyone but the actual user experience of signing up is terrible. But it’s the W3C, so what do you expect? :p All of the information you should need is available on the Website and related pages and you can also view the public mailing list for the group too. If you want to know anything else then just ask!